Inheritance and Originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Stephen Mulhall

Inheritance and Originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Stephen Mulhall

Description

What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism, in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors' most influential texts, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge.

Inheritance and Originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Stephen Mulhall

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Modernist Origins: Reading Stanley Cavell's The Claim of ReasonPart One Wittgenstein's Vision of Language: Reading the Philosophical InvestigationsPart Two Heidegger's Vision of Scepticism: Reading Being and Time and What is Called Thinking?Part Three Kierkegaard's Vision of Religion: Reading Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling, and RepetitionAcknowledgementsBibliography

Inheritance and Originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Stephen Mulhall

Author Information

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford.